Few artists can boast a career as wide and well-regarded as Nick Cave, whose work spans decades as well as creative arenas, in music via The Birthday Party, Grinderman, and with the Bad Seeds (whom he’ll perform with at the Paramount), as well as acting and writing. And somehow each project that bears his name is spiritual, thought-provoking, and beautifully off-kilter. Reviews for this tour confirm his talents, which will be followed by a July 10 screening at the Grand Illusion of a new documentary about him, 20,000 Days on Earth, which Rolling Stone called “staged, stylized, and weird as fuck.” With Mark Lanegan. The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 682-1414. stgpresents.com/paramount. 8 p.m. $51.25. DAVE LAKE

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds play the Paramount tonight.

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